The Padres are set to pick the contract of catcher Elias Diaz tomorrow, based on a report from Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Acee writes that Diaz will take the lively roster spot created for a place participant by tomorrow’s roster growth, whereas left-hander Wandy Peralta will likely be activated from the 15-day Injured Checklist to take teh spot created for a pitcher. Lefty Tom Cosgrove may also be recalled from the minor leagues, although a corresponding transfer will likely be needed so as to add him to the lively roster. A corresponding transfer to make room on the 40-man roster will likely be essential to accommodate Diaz.
Diaz, 33, joined the Padres on a minor league deal earlier this week after being launched by the Rockies earlier this month. That launch dropped at an finish a five-season stretch in Colorado that noticed Diaz slash a stable .253/.305/.403 in 462 video games with the membership. That slash line was good for a wRC+ of simply 80 because of the inflated offensive setting at Coors Area, however even that diminished determine continues to be properly throughout the acceptable vary for a glove-first catcher. Diaz proved to be a stable if unspectacular common for the membership behind the plate, even incomes an All-Star look final 12 months.
After a stable begin to the 2024 marketing campaign, the Rockies reportedly entertained commerce gives for Diaz’s providers, however the membership’s plans to deal the veteran in his remaining 12 months earlier than free company had been thrown astray when he suffered a calf pressure that precipitated him to overlook three weeks in June. After returning, Diaz’s offense took a nosedive with a .194/.239/.239 slash line in 18 video games within the run-up to the deadline. That seemingly scared off suitors to the purpose the place the Rockies weren’t in a position to get a deal finished, and it left them to strive putting Diaz on waivers in mid-August in an try and discover a suitor prepared to soak up what remained of his wage. His offensive manufacturing had solely improved marginally when the calendar flipped to August, nevertheless, and the membership finally launched Diaz to permit him the chance to attempt to catch on with a contender elsewhere.
He’s now finished simply that with the Padres, and can have the chance to share catching duties with the membership’s present tandem of Luis Campusano and Kyle Higashioka down the stretch. Higashioka is within the midst of a profession 12 months on the plate with a wonderful .230/.276/.520 slash line and 16 homers in simply 215 journeys to the plate, whereas Campusano has endured a little bit of a down season with a slash line of simply .233/.283/.372 in 87 video games. Diaz ought to provide the membership a stable defensive possibility behind the plate who, if he can regain his early season kind, might provide an on-base means that each of their present catchers lack.
As for Peralta, the veteran lefty has pitched to considerably middling ends in the primary 12 months of a fancy four-year deal he signed with the Padres this winter. In 34 innings, the 32-year-old hurler has posted a 4.50 ERA regardless of a 5.70 FIP and a strikeout fee of simply 13.6%. He’ll be part of fellow lefties Tanner Scott, Yuki Matsui, and Adrian Morejon within the membership’s bullpen down the stretch, the place the membership will certainly hope for Peralta to recapture the shape that allowed him to publish a 3.01 ERA in 200 appearances with the Giants and Yankees over the previous 4 seasons.
